(December 11, 2018 at 2:00 pm)Amarok Wrote: Comparing the wall in Isreal is just stupid
I really don't care. Even there I think Israel's leadership his so far disconnected from the Holocaust now, they have leadership that does not understand the "us vs them" mentality Holocaust victims were a result of. Walls do not make better neighbors, diplomacy does.
The DMC in North Korea also has literally divided families. Berlin was divided too, after WW2. And that also was not a good thing.
All things considered, I have no problem with border security, but not based on labels or fear mongering. If one wants to say, "Lets keep violent people out" everyone gets that. It is when labels are used to sell fear that is when I have a problem.
I have Hispanic neighbors on both sides of me, and I have lived next to them for 11 years now without one lick of trouble. I don't know their legal status, nor do I care. I know our violent criminals are a vast majority of people born here with legal status.
And as far as walls over the decades, as far as Mexico or Israel, if walls worked, then I would not see story after story of tunnels being found.
DIPLOMACY and economics are what work, not selling fear, not dividing humanity.
